Zygolophodon

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Zygolophodon
Temporal range: 28.4–2.5Ma
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Proboscidea
Family: †Mammutidae
Genus: †Zygolophodon
(Vacek 1877)
Species
  • Zygolophodon aegyptensis
  • Zygolophodon lufengensis
  • Zygolophodon proavus (syn. Mastodon brevidens, M. merriami)
  • Zygolophodon turicensis
  • Zygolophodon tapiroides Cuvier, (1824)
Synonyms
  • Mastodonte tapiroide
  • Mastodon (Zygolophodon) tapiroides
  • Mastodon borsoni (Borson's mastodon)
  • Mastodon turicensis

Zygolophodon is an extinct genus of African, Asian, North American and European mastodon that lived during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs. It may have evolved from Tetralophodon. While collecting fossils in the Clarno Formation of Oregon during 1941, noted paleobotanists Alonzo W. Hancock and Chester A. Arnold recovered the most complete Zygolophodon skull known at the time.[1]

Z. borsoni tusks excavated in Greece
Z. atticus skull

References

  1. ↑ The Oregon History Project Alonzo Hancock entry
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